Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-30
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.
San Francisco telegram Goth: II

July 9. By the loss OF the steamer Sir John
Laurence In the Bay Of Bengal 800 were
lost, mainly pilgrims OF the best families in
cyclone ragged in the Bay Of Bengal with
with great loss of life. The storm was the
severest experienced In that quarter since
1856, Judging from the reports of vessels
which weathered it. The passengers on
board the Sir John Laurence numbered $50,
the officers and crew numbering fifty. The.
passengers were mainly women going on a
pilgrimage to the famous temple Of Jaga-
nath, at Punt. There is scarcely native
family in Calcutta which does not bemoan
the loss OF relative by the disaster.
a dispatch, via Montg omery, Alaba-
ma, of the Goth says: The town OF Besse-
mer was almost totally destroyed by fire
early this morning. Aighted candle ignit-
ed the window curtain in a boarding house.
The house being frame was soon wrapped in
flames. The wind caused the flames to
spread rapidly to adjacent build ings. Twelve
OF the handsomest structures In the city
were entirely destroyed. There were no fire
engines in town and the citizens who fought
the flames SO manfully suffered many severe
burns. Several persons are missing and it
Is supposed they persisted in the flames.
Loss unknown.
The powder house of the Chicago,
Washington & Vermillion Coal Co., at
Streator, Ills, was struck by lightning at
2:30 a. m. on the 21st, and 10000 pounds Of
powder exploded. The sits OF the powder
house Is monstrous excavation. Only one
fatality is reported, but five were 80
seriously injured that all may die; the num-
Der OF minor casualties will reach nearly a
hundred. Forty-fve dwellings were almost
totally demolished, and there is not plate
glass window left in the business portion of
the city. The loss is SIS, goo to 100000.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat
publishes detailed report showing that
his in Texas and Arkansas and on the Mis-
souri, Pacific, have been making good
thing out of tie contracts and other supplies,
by which these parties have gotten some
$1,000, COO, improperly: To Illustrate, they
turned them in to Gould at IS cents. The
number of ties thus handled is said to be
ten millions, and the scheme has been
worked for three years.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, Miss Josie
Holmes, who was the exchange clerk of the
late Fidelity National Bank, and whose
visits and consultations with Mr.. e. l.. Har-
per, late vice-president of the bank caused
his removal to tho Dayton jail, was served
| with warrant charging her with aiding
and abetting Harper in his illegal conduct,
for which he is now awaiting trial. Upon
being arraigned she waived examination,
and was required to give a bond of SIC, 900.
This has not been done and she is still in
custody.
John Taylor who succeeded Brigham
Young, as President Of the Mormon church
died at Salt Lake City on the 25th He was
born in England, Nov. /, 1908. In 1882 he
emigrated to Canada, and in 1875 joined
the Mormons at Kirkland, Ohio, and has
since followed their fortunes, taking lead
ing partfn all thei affairs and was one of he
earliest and frmest adherents of polySamy.
He became the head Of the church in 1877
and had been in hiding since July l, 1885,
David Hoffman, was hanged at
Nebraska City, Neb., July % for train
wrecking, the first execution for that crime
in the United States. The crime was COM
mitted January 10, 1887, on tho Missouri
Pacific, near Dunbar, Neb., causing the
death of the engineer and injury to others.
Bell an associate of Hoffman in the deed
was given 10 years sentence. The object
of wrecking the train was to rob the Elk
press car.
Ex-Warden McGargiele of the Cook
county hospital, convicted OF defrauding the
county, escaped from Sheriff Matson Satur-
day evening at Chicago He was taken out
of Jail for an interview with the county at
torney Grinnelt and was taken to his own
house; being granted an opportunity to
take a bath, he made his escape instead,
and is supposed to have started for Canada.
The Mayor of Chicago has appointed
a committee OF 200, composed of represen-
tative men OF all Chicago interests, societies,
clubs, ETC., as committee Of invitation to
President Cleveland and the same to act as
committee of reception when the President
and his party visit that city.
On the Dist, Near Arden, Ontario,
Mrs. W. B. Mills, her two daughters and a
sister-in-law went into the lake to bathe
One of the daughters got beyond her depth
and the others went to her rescue. The re-
suit was that all except the younger
daughter were drowned.
At Baltimore, Md, the establishment
OFF. s. Young & Son, for the preparation
Of bark extracts used In the manufacture Of
tobacco, at Denmead' swharf, Canton st was
burned July 81. Loss 1925 600; fully insured.
A widow living near Toledo, Ohio,
shot and killed a farmer neighbor at 8
o'clock Sunday morning as he was trying
to get into the house through window.
At Petersburg, Ind, on the 22nd
Peter Burkhardt, aged seventy, wealthy
farmer, having become Jealous OF his young
wife shot her dead and then himself
Seven persons were drowned by the
sinking Of the schooner barge Perry In
Lake Erie during a gale Saturday night
The business failures during the last
seven days number for the United States
147, for Canada, Is; total, 172; compared
with 179 last year, and 1873 for the CORES
ponding week last year.
IN THE EAST.
Joseph Van Heyst, the Holland
banker whose wife eloped with Jules Van
Doren, a linen manufacturer arrived at New
York on the 25th., in search of his wife.
Mrs. Van Heyst and Van Doren arrived on
the 14th inst, bringing with them Van
Heyst's three-year-old daughter and $4,000
horins, which Mrs. Van Heyst cribbed from
her husbands store. The husband left for
Easton, Pa, where the guilty pair are de-
tanned pending habeas corpus proceedings.
As AZ Italian laborers were at work
ballasting the track of the Erie r. R.,
third OF mile from Hohokus, n Y, Thurs
day morning the Chicago express dashed
around q curve upon them without warn
ing, and IL were killed and five badly in